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☆ Leaders from the CIA, Dell Technologies, HP, SageCXO, and ezCater share how they keep up with AI development
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Helen Li | Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

John Roese, the global chief technology officer and chief AI officer of Dell Technologies. In the long term, those two have to come closer together to achieve the speed necessary for an AI cycle. So the quality of what you produce in your organization as a CTO — if you're going to provide models built in-house — better be superstar quality, or no one's using it. Once you understand that those are high level, then you have to ask if you are actually on a path where if you apply AI, you're going to get to an outcome. DeCesare: I've been most inspired to drive the leverage of AI through the company by finding out how people have applied it.

Persons: Emma Cosgrove, La'Naia Jones, John Roese, Elaine Zhou, Faisal Masud, Erin DeCesare, What's, it's, Claude, It's, She's, ChatGPT, Cosgrove, we've, cocreate, that's, We've, Masud, That's, they're, Jones, You've, Everyone's, Aaron, Jensen, Huang, I've Organizations: Business, BI's, CIA, Dell Technologies, HP, Star, Amazon, Nvidia Locations: Spain, Madrid, Silicon

☆ The US Air Force's potential shift to adaptable 'light fighters' to solve budget woes is more complicated than it seems
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Alex Hollings | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

US Air Force photo illustration by Staff Sgt. The Air Force needs new missiles, new bombers, and new fighters — but is struggling to pay for them allThe B-21 Raider in flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Cultural inertia in the fighter businessUS Air Force fighter aircraft fly in formation. A rendering of a future crewed next-generation air dominance aircraft by the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Nonetheless, for a cash-strapped Air Force, this would be a significant challenge.

Persons: David Allvin, Parth Satam, Allvin, Madeline Herzog, that's, it's, Will Roper, I'm, Charles, CQ, Brown, Preston Cherry, America's, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Marine Corps Lockheed Martin, Peter Nicholls, —, Danielle Purnell, Frank Kendall, Tom Williams, Will Roper's, Kendall —, I've, Kendall, there's, Northrop Grumman's, Roper, Giancarlo Casem, today's, they've, wouldn't, John Raven, James M, Holmes, we've Organizations: Service, senior Air Force, Air Force, Global Air, Space Chiefs, Conference, UK's, Space Power Association, Business, Fighter, US Air Force, Force, American, Next, Sabre, Convair, Delta Dart, Rand Corporation, National Museum of, Staff, Joint Chiefs, Raptors, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Senior, Boeing, Lockheed, US, Marine Corps Lockheed, Royal International Air, Reuters, Getty, Capitol, Raider, Air, Edwards Air Force Base, DARPA, USAF, III, America, Minuteman, Sentinel missile, Pentagon, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Sentinel, Defense, Tech, Combat Command, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Sandboxx Locations: London, American, Fairford, Britain, Fort Worth, California, United States, Soviet Union, Marietta , Georgia, America, Europe

☆ Putin hosts India’s PM to deepen ties, but Ukraine looms over their relationship
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi walk during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence near Moscow, Russia July 8, 2024. Their partnership has become more complicated, however, as Russia has moved closer to China amid international isolation of Moscow over Ukraine. Russian state media reported that they would also discuss Moscow helping India build more nuclear power plants. The two countries already are collaborating on the Kudankulam nuclear power project in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. With Moscow's arms industries mostly serving the Russian military in Ukraine, India has been diversifying its defense procurements, buying more from the U.S., Israel, France and Italy.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Putin, Modi, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Matthew Miller, Vinay Mohan Kwatra Organizations: India's, Indian, NATO, . State Department, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, India, Russian Locations: Moscow, Russia, Washington, Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, Beijing, Russian, Kyiv, India, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, United States, Vladivostok, Uzbekistan, U.S, Israel, France, Italy, Chennai, East

☆ Tesla slashed its Supercharger team. What does that mean for America’s EV network?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The news this week that Elon Musk laid off Tesla’s entire Supercharger team sent shockwaves of uncertainty through the industry tasked with building America’s new network of EV chargers. A fast and reliable charging network is an essential ingredient in getting more people to switch from gas-powered vehicles to electric, and some early types of chargers proved less than dependable. Tesla had a superior charging network long before President Joe Biden set an ambitious goal to install half a million stations around the US by the end of the decade. “There are many, many charging companies out there,” an EV industry source told CNN. “Charging is a difficult business, there’s no doubt about that,” the EV industry source said.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Joe Biden, NEVI, “ It’s, ”, it’s, ” Daniel Sperling, University of California Davis, Loren McDonald, ” McDonald Organizations: CNN, EV, Joint Office of Energy, Transportation, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, NEVI, Infrastructure Law, ”, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Locations: EVAdoption, New York

CNN —The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter. Since Hamas’ attack on Israel in October, which killed over 1,200 Israelis, the US has made more than 100 foreign military sales to Israel. Most of those have fallen under the specific dollar amount that requires a notification to Congress, an official familiar with the matter previously told CNN. A congressional aide told CNN that House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has also approved the transaction to proceed to formal congressional notification. “What you hear about the frustrations within the administration over the Israel policy, it is real,” one US diplomat told CNN on condition of anonymity.

Persons: CNN —, Biden, Sen, James Risch, Michael McCaul, Ben Cardin, Greg Meeks, Biden administration’s, Joe Biden’s, “, ”, Israel won’t, Josh Paul, Matthew Miller, Israel what’s, Pat Ryder, ” Steven Katz, Katz Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Biden, Democratic, House Foreign Affairs, Foreign, State Department, Republican, Senate Foreign Relations, House Foreign, Congressional Research Service, UN, The State Department, State Department’s Bureau, Political, Military Affairs, ”, Pentagon, Army, Defense, U.S, National Intelligence Locations: Israel, Gaza, State, Washington , DC, United States, “ Israel, Iran

☆ Drones have turned the tables in recent African wars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Paul Iddon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Drones recently supplied to Sudan by Iran are already making an impact in that country's brutal civil war. Similar types of drones played decisive roles in turning the tables in two previous African civil wars in recent years and could do so again. "It should come as no surprise that these drones are being used in wars around the world," Rogers told BI. In this context, drones are useful to achieve specific objectives, but they will not win the war alone," Rogers said. RANE's Dodd also credited Ethiopia's drone procurements for decisively "turning the tide" of the Tigray War.

Persons: —, Remi Dodd, RANE, it's, Dodd, James Patton Rogers, Rogers, Turkey's TB2, Loong, Debretsion Gebremichael, RANE's Dodd Organizations: Service, Business, Sudanese Armed Forces, Rapid Support Forces, United, Ethiopian, Tigray, Libyan National Army, Cornell Brooks Tech, Institute, Cornell University, American Warfare, Anadolu, Getty, Democratic Locations: Sudan, Iran, Iranian, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Libya, Tripoli, Omdurman, Tehran, Red, Yemen, Ukraine, Tigray War, Tigray, Addis Ababa, Ukrainian, New York, Donetsk, Nigeria, DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso

☆ SAP CTO Juergen Mueller on 2024: The worst thing for AI would be if only a few know how to use it
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-22 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewWhen I first spoke to Juergen Mueller, SAP's chief technology officer, earlier this year, generative AI was the hot new thing. One issue with language models and generative AI is that it often has a cutoff point and lacks up-to-date knowledge. SAP has trained more than 50,000 of the company's 105,000 workers on what it sees as the opportunities that Gen AI brings. The worst thing is if only a few would know how and what to do with it and the majority wouldn't. This strong foundation of AI expertise has been enabling us to infuse generative AI capabilities across our solutions and deliver immediate value to customers.

Persons: —, Juergen Mueller, Mueller, ChatGPT, we've Organizations: Service, Business, SAP, Google, SAP Cloud Locations: Business

☆ Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Texas are major beneficiaries of US aid to Ukraine, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Biden Administration has circulated a map showing the states that have benefited from Ukraine aid. President Biden hopes to convince Congress to continue sending aid to Ukraine to help combat Russia's invasion. Three out of eight Republican members of Congress from Pennsylvania, three out of six from Arizona, and 18 out of 25 from Texas have been voting against sending aid to Ukraine, Reuters reported. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has recently become a surprise advocate for increasing aid to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported. AdvertisementDespite previously voting against sending more aid to combat Russian President Vladimir Putin's invading forces, Johnson has used his position as speaker to publicly label Ukraine aid a key priority.

Persons: Biden, —, Biden's, Joe Biden, JONATHAN ERNST, Getty, Mike Johnson, Vladimir Putin's, Johnson, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Biden Administration, Service, Capitol, Republicans, Reuters, Reuters . Pennsylvania, Street Journal, Congress, America, America . Patriot, Artillery, US Department of Defense, DoD Locations: Ukraine, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, Israel, Gaza, Russia, Reuters ., Europe, America, Pennsylvania , Ohio , Texas

☆ Indonesia Approves 20% Rise in Defence Budget by 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's outgoing president has approved a 20% hike in defence spending through the end of next year, to upgrade the country's military hardware in response to geopolitical developments, its finance minister said. In a press conference on Wednesday, Sri Mulyani Indrawati said the approval came in a meeting she attended with President Joko Widodo and Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto. Prabowo is the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election in February, and is running with Widodo's son. The defence budget will be increased from $20.75 billion to $25 billion, Sri Mulyani said. They considered them as a necessity given the condition of our military hardware as well as rising threats amid increasing geopolitical and geo-security dynamics," she said.

Persons: Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Joko Widodo, Prabowo Subianto, Prabowo, Mulyani, Lockheed Martin, Gayatri Suroyo, Ananda Teresia, Kanupriya Kapoor Organizations: Sri, Defence, Dassault Rafale, Turkish Aerospace Locations: JAKARTA, U.S

☆ US Funding for Ukraine Arms Has Poured Into Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

In Texas, 18 of the 25 Republican U.S. representatives have voted against Ukraine aid. In Arizona, three of six Republican representatives voted against aid while $2.196 billion poured into the state. The conservative Defending Democracy Together group's "Republicans for Ukraine" campaign has been tracking Republican rhetoric and voting patterns on Ukraine aid legislation. It gave "poor" or "very poor" grades to two of Wisconsin's six Republican representatives, to one of Arkansas' four Republican representatives and to three of Pennsylvania's eight Republican representatives. Yet Johnson voted against Ukraine aid repeatedly before he became speaker last month.

Persons: Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Biden, Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Mike Johnson, Johnson, Mike Stone, Chris Sanders, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Capitol Hill, Kyiv, Keystone State, Reuters, Republican U.S, Patriot, Raytheon, Texas ., Capitol, Republicans, Democrats, Ukraine, Companies, Biden, group's Locations: Ukraine, Pennsylvania, In Texas, Texas, Arizona, Israel, U.S, Ohio, Texas . Pennsylvania, Congress, Arizona , Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Washington

☆ US funding for Ukraine arms has poured into Pennsylvania, Arizona and Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Mike Stone | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Persons: Joe Biden, Evelyn Hockstein, Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Mike Johnson, Johnson, Mike Stone, Chris Sanders, Matthew Lewis Organizations: White, REUTERS, Rights, Capitol Hill, Kyiv, Keystone State, Reuters, Republican U.S, Patriot, Raytheon, Texas ., Capitol, Republicans, Democrats, Ukraine, Companies, Biden, group's, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Washington , U.S, Pennsylvania, In Texas, Texas, Arizona, Israel, U.S, Ohio, Texas . Pennsylvania, Congress, Arizona , Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Washington

☆ Solar stocks could rebound in 2024 after a brutal year but interest rates will make or break the recovery
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Solar stocks could rebound in the second half of 2024 after taking a beating this year, though the industry's recovery depends largely on whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again. The rally comes as the residential solar industry looks toward the end of a rough year, with demand softening significantly as repeated rate hikes made installations unattractive for consumers. "The big headwind is interest rates," said Julien Dumoulin-Smith, a stock analyst who covers clean energy for Bank of America. Inventory problem The residential solar companies misread the market this year after a record 2022. The residential solar stocks will probably be broadly revisited on the buyside sometime around the spring of 2024, Blanchard said, though this also depends on what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates.

Persons: SolarEdge, Julien Dumoulin, Smith, we're, Corinne Blanchard, Blanchard, Wood Mackenzie, Jerome Powell, Goldman Sachs, James West, orderbook, West Organizations: Federal Reserve, Treasury, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Federal, Golden State, Utilities, Evercore ISI Locations: Dumoulin, California, Golden

☆ Indonesia must be prudent with military spending, president says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A view of Indonesian Special Air Force personnel in action during a ceremony to mark the Indonesian Air Force's 77th Anniversary at the Halim Perdanakusuma airbase in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 9, 2023. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsJAKARTA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday emphasised the importance of military hardware modernisation but warned any spending should be done wisely as the state budget was limited. The archipelago nation of 270 million people, Southeast Asia's biggest economy, is seeking to modernise its military but has lagged its regional peers in recent years. "Spending for military hardware must be done wisely, in terms of the amount or allocation," Jokowi, as the president is known, said during an armed forces parade. Jokowi in July also warned his cabinet to maintain a "healthy" budget as he highlighted outsised spending by the security agencies, including the defence ministry.

Persons: Willy Kurniawan, Joko Widodo, Prabowo Subianto, Ananda Teresia, Martin Petty Organizations: Indonesian Special Air Force, Indonesian Air Force's, REUTERS, Rights, Defence, Dassault Rafale, Turkish Aerospace, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Locations: Halim, Jakarta, Indonesia, Rights JAKARTA, Southeast, Stockholm

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. The drill is the latest in a flurry of Chinese activity in the Middle East, traditionally seen as the US’ backyard. According to the Wall Street Journal, the US wants Saudi Arabia to distance itself economically and militarily from Beijing in return. Four of the top 10 importers of US arms are Gulf Arab states: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. Some of these purchases were driven by US restrictions on selling arms to Gulf states under the Biden administration, according to Alhasan.

Persons: ” Hasan Alhasan, “, Barack Obama’s, ”, Mohammed Baharoon, John Calabrese, …, ” Calabrese, CNN’s Becky Anderson, Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, Washington, Biden, Alhasan, China’s, Xi Jinping, ” Yun Sun, ” Alhasan, ” Baharoon Organizations: UAE CNN, United Arab Emirates, American, Washington, UAE, Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, CNN, Asia Experts, East ., US, Dubai Public Policy Research Center, Middle East Institute, Wall Street Journal, China Program, China, Stimson Center Locations: Abu Dhabi, UAE, United States, China, China’s, Xinjiang, Ukraine, Gulf, Asia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Washington, Dubai, Russia, Saudi, Riyadh, Israel, Beijing, Europe, Arab, Qatar, Kuwait, Sun, “

The total value of the purchases is expected to be around 800 billion rupees ($9.75 billion), according to one of the sources. Earlier this year, the government proposed a 13% hike in defence spending to 5.94 trillion rupees for the 2023-24 financial year. The marine version of Dassualt's Rafale jets, intended for India's first indigenous aircraft carrier commissioned last year, outperformed the American Superhornet F18s in tests last year for Indian requirements. India has relied on French fighter jets for four decades now. In 2005, India bought six Scorpene-class diesel submarines from France for 188 billion rupees ($2.29 billion), the last of which will be commissioned next year.

Persons: Narendra Modi's, Rajnath Singh, Modi, Singh, Krishn Kaushik, Tanvi Mehta, Kim Coghill Organizations: Rafale, Defence, procurements, Dassault Aviation, Mazagon, France's Naval Group, Mirage, Thomson Locations: DELHI, France, Paris, Pakistan, China, India

☆ Their parents made China the world's factory. Can the kids save the family business?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( David Kirton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Du, like tens of thousands of other young Chinese factory bosses, is inheriting a basic manufacturing business that can no longer rely on the labour-intensive model that made China the world's largest exporter of goods. Those skills would come in handy in a factory the Chinese state set up in 1951 and privatised in 2002. Like five of the other chang er dai who spoke to Reuters, Zhang never planned to take over the factory. Chang er dai, however, help lift the bottom, which is also important for preserving China's share of world manufacturing, two industry experts told Reuters. Not all chang er dai will get there.

Persons: Steven Du, Du, Zhang Zhipeng, Mao Zedong's, Du said, Zhang, Zhang Zeqing, Chang, Zhou Yuxiang, Tian Weihua, Tian, Zhang Ying, David Kirton, Marius Zaharia, David Crawshaw Organizations: Shenzhen Research Institute of High, Reuters, Apple, Agricultural Products, Lake Technologies, Science, Technology Innovation Research Institute, University of Arts, Workers, Thomson Locations: RUICHANG, China, Shanghai, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand, United States, TW, Wisconsin, Ruichang, France, London, Ningbo

☆ US slaps sanctions on Iranian, Chinese targets over Tehran's missile, military programs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Daphne Psaledakis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York and China's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment. China has been a major buyer of Iranian oil despite U.S. sanctions designed to choke off these exports. Washington targeted centrifuge sales to Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI), dual-use metals sales to its intermediary, P.B. Co., Ltd, which the Treasury accused of selling centrifuges and other equipment and services worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to PCI with P.B. Sadr and PCI, as well as the other companies, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Persons: Davoud Damghani, Brian Nelson, Sadr, Zhejiang Qingji, Daphne Psaledakis, Doina Chiacu, Susan Heavey, Arshad Mohammed, David Brunnstrom, Chizu Nomiyama, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: . Treasury, Armed Forces Logistics, Terrorism, Financial Intelligence, United Nations, Parchin Chemical Industries, PCI, Zhejiang Qingji, P.B, Treasury, Hong, Hong Kong Ke.Do International Trade Co, Qingdao Zhongrongtong Trade, Co, Thomson Locations: United States, Iran, China, Hong Kong, Beijing, U.S, Washington, Tehran, New York, . Sadr, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Qingji Ind, Sadr, Qingdao

☆ Amazon is the 500-pound gorilla in a room full of puppies when it comes to corporate buying of wind and solar power
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

In 2022, Amazon bought 10.9 gigawatts of clean power, making it the largest corporate buyer of renewable power in the world, according to data from the market research company BloombergNEF. It's also more than four times the amount of clean energy that the second-largest purchaser of clean power, Facebook parent company Meta , bought in 2022. Since 2019, Amazon has scaled from having one gigawatt of renewable energy to more than 20 gigawatts of publicly announced renewable power. Amazon is focused on building new wind and solar projects, Daitch told CNBC. But that's really more of a bridging solution and not our core strategy, which is around enabling new wind and solar projects," Daitch said.

☆ India raises defence budget to $72.6 bln amid tensions with China
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Manoj Kumar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

She said 2.77 trillion rupees would be devoted to military salaries and benefits in 2023-24, 1.38 trillion on pensions for retired soldiers, and further amounts for miscellaneous items. Sitharaman also revised the defence budget for the current financial year ending in March to 5.85 trillion rupees from earlier estimates of 5.25 trillion. Laxman Behera, a defence expert at government-funded Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said the hike in the defence budget was "reasonable but not sufficient", considering requirements for military modernisation. India plans to spend near 242 billion rupees ($3 billion) for naval fleet construction and 571.4 billion rupees ($7 billion) for air force procurements including more aircraft, the latest budget document showed. Although the defence budget allocations fell short of military expectations, they are likely to grow as the economy recovers from two years of pandemic curbs, according to Behera.

☆ Reconstrucția prizei de apă la stația de pompare NSP-4c și reabilitarea bazinului de acumulare a apei la stația de pompare NS-5 din componența Sistemului Centralizat de Irigare „Criulenii de Sus” (rel
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-30 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +1 min

FONDUL DE DEZVOLTARE DURABILĂ MOLDOVA(FDD MOLDOVA)CERERE DE OFERTE (relansare concurs)pentru lucrări de construcțieRef: PP4/ICIDIA/W/S/127Instituția Publică „Fondul Dezvoltare Durabilă Moldova” invită companiile interesate, care au demonstrat experiență în efectuarea lucrărilor de construcție și instalarea echipamentelor complexe, să-şi prezinte ofertele pentru: Reconstrucția prizei de apă la stația de pompare NSP-4c și reabilitarea bazinului de acumulare a apei la stația de pompare NS-5 din componența Sistemului Centralizat de Irigare „Criulenii de Sus”. Termenul limită pentru depunerea ofertelor este 21 decembrie, 2020, ora 14-00. Ofertele primite după acest termen nu vor fi considerate. Formularul de depunere a ofertei de prețAnexa 2. Formulare de aplicareProiect de ExecuțiePentru mai multe detalii accesati: http://sda.gov.md/ro/Procurements.html

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